Re:California issues first rolling blackouts since 2001
by baddox on Saturday August 15, 2020 @08:40PM
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So where are all the automatic bridge-building machines? Isn’t our bridge infrastructure famously poor?
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Re:California issues first rolling blackouts since 2001
by extradesgo on Sunday August 16, 2020 @02:40AM
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Right. The automation nuts are wildly disconnected with reality.
Re:California issues first rolling blackouts since 2001
by flukus on Sunday August 16, 2020 @06:13PM
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Of course there's no single bridge building machine, but most of the work in bridge building is done by a collection of machines, usually with human specialists operating them. It's not the 1920's and most digging is done by an excavator instead of a human with a shovel, most cement is delivered by a truck humans mixing it onsite. As much as possible will also be prefab.